# SSO avatars not being overridden
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607
**Category:** SSO
**Created:** [2016 年 12 月 21 日午後 5:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607 "2016-12-21T17:40:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@windy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/windy)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 21 日午後 5:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/1 "2016-12-21T17:40:14Z")
I know there are a few other posts about this, but none of them were able to solve my problem. Everything else in our SSO implementation works fine; this is the only thing that’s not working as expected. I’ve tried setting `avatar_force_update` to both `true` and `1` to no avail.
Code snippet w/ verbose log output: [SSO.scala · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/windy1/86ee6965fbcd00036fbeae56cfa659b7)
Any insight is much appreciated, thanks.
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### Author:  [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 21 日午後 6:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/2 "2016-12-21T18:23:57Z")
If you’re in development, maybe it’s this:
> [@Can't get avatar overrides to work over SSO](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-avatar-overrides-to-work-over-sso/47705/3):
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> I can’t, for the life of me, understand why, but non-local avatar URLs work fine. I wish trying this out had occurred to me, oh, about five days ago smiley Edit: maybe related to this → [https://meta.discourse.org/t/having-issues-downloading-avatars-from-localhost/45311](https://meta.discourse.org/t/having-issues-downloading-avatars-from-localhost/45311)
Edit: nevermind, you’re using non-local URLs.
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### Author:  [@windy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/windy)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 23 日午後 4:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/3 "2016-12-23T16:14:11Z")
Bump (sorry)…
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 23 日午後 4:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/4 "2016-12-23T16:39:29Z")
DId you enable `sso overrides avatar` ?
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### Author:  [@windy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/windy)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 23 日午後 4:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/5 "2016-12-23T16:51:40Z")
Yes I did. Sorry should have mentioned that.
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### Author:  [@windy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/windy)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 27 日午後 10:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/6 "2016-12-27T22:16:27Z")
@Falco Any other possible fixes you can think of? Kind of important I work this out.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 27 日午後 10:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/7 "2016-12-27T22:47:18Z")
In your gist `avatar_force_update` isn’t set, did you manage to make it true in verbose logging?
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### Author:  [@windy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/windy)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 27 日午後 11:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/8 "2016-12-27T23:49:52Z")
Yes sorry, I tried both with and without, I had another instance where it was set to true and still no update.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 28 日午前 12:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/9 "2016-12-28T00:00:52Z")
So even with `verbose_logging` showing `avatar_force_update = true` the avatar isn’t updated?
Are you runiing against a production docker instance?
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### Author:  [@windy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/windy)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 28 日午前 12:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/10 "2016-12-28T00:14:42Z")
Yeah, I tested on both production and a dev instance on OS X.
EDIT: Just realized I haven’t tested `avatar_force_update` on prod, will try that and report back.
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### Author:  [@windy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/windy)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 28 日午前 12:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/11 "2016-12-28T00:47:47Z")
Ok just tested on our production docker instance @Falco and still no update with `avatar_force_update: true` in verbose logging.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2016 年 12 月 28 日午前 1:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/12 "2016-12-28T01:17:34Z")
The user already exists or is he being created as part of the SSO log in?
Also is `/sidekiq` with a queue? Any errors regarding `DownloadAvatarFromUrl`?
Also try this in a rails console in a production instance:
```plaintext
user = User.find_by_email(AUSEREMAILHERE)
Jobs.enqueue(:download_avatar_from_url, url: 'http://mycoolavatar.png', user_id: user.id)
```
and watch logs.
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### Author:  [@lukegb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lukegb)
#### Post date: [2017 年 1 月 17 日午前 1:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/13 "2017-01-17T01:19:41Z")
For what it’s worth, it works fine. The main problem is that `sso_overrides_avatar` is misleadingly named, because it won’t, in fact, override a Gravatar set on a user.
The call to `download_avatar_from_url` here:
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doesn’t pass `override_gravatar`, so:
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doesn’t pass on `override_gravatar`, so:
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won’t set it to the avatar from SSO.
Is this intentional behavior?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2017 年 1 月 17 日午前 9:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/14 "2017-01-17T09:38:10Z")
> [@lukegb](#):
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> Is this intentional behavior?
No it’s not. Feel free to do a pull request 😉
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2017 年 1 月 19 日午前 5:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/15 "2017-01-19T05:26:10Z")
> [@lukegb](#):
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> The main problem is that sso\_overrides\_avatar is misleadingly named, because it won’t, in fact, override a Gravatar set on a user.
Fixed via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0791c2c96636e9af5992d5d0ea6f991018cf4ef6](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0791c2c96636e9af5992d5d0ea6f991018cf4ef6)
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### Author:  [@lukegb](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lukegb)
#### Post date: [2017 年 1 月 20 日午後 9:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/16 "2017-01-20T21:23:36Z")
Thanks! I wasn’t sure if there was an obvious edgecase I’d missed 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2017 年 1 月 20 日午後 9:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-avatars-not-being-overridden/54607/17 "2017-01-20T21:29:44Z")